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Re: [Nmh-workers] More garbage collection: conflict(8)

2013-01-10 16:07:19
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:42:36 -0500, Ken Hornstein said:

Do people actually use conflict(8) anymore?  From the man page:

       Conflict  also checks for maildrops in /var/mail which do not belong to
       a valid user.  It assumes that no user name will start  with  â??.â??, 
 and
       thus  ignores  files in /var/mail which begin with â??.â??.  It also 
checks
       for entries in the group(5) file which do not belong to a  valid  user,
       and for users who do not have a valid group number.  In addition 
dupliâ??
       cate users and groups are noted.

I'm thinking that this hasn't been useful for at least a decade, and probably
longer.  Can we get rid of it?

Looks like much of that is already done by 'pwck' and 'grpck'. And the
rest of it should also be part of a more general system config checker
rather than part of nmh.

"Not my yob, man" -- Freddie Prinz.

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